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Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16

Posted by timothy on from the small-improvements-add-up dept.

devg writes "The GNOME development community recently announced the official release GNOME 2.26, the latest version of the open source desktop environment for Linux. It adds the Brasero disc burning software, UPnP support in the Totem media player, and basic support for video chat in the Empathy instant messaging client. GNOME 2.26 will be shipped in upcoming Linux distributions, including Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04. Some early reviews show that it is an incremental improvement with some good additions. GNOME 2.26 is accompanied by the release of GTK+ 2.16, a new version of the widget toolkit that is used to build the desktop environment. Ars Technica has published a detailed programming tutorial with code examples that demonstrate how developers can use the new features of GTK+ 2.16 in their own applications. Users can test GNOME 2.26 by downloading one of the official Foresight-based VM or ISO images via BitTorrent."

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  1. Re:Wait... by erikina · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're nice. Especially as someone who use KDE, it allows me to easily see what's happening in that part of the world.

  2. Just not interested by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I left gnome when they removed all the options from the screen-savers because they decided that configuring the screen-savers was to complicated for users. Surely not all gnome users are retards!

    1. Re:Just not interested by Darkness404 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Having used both KDE and GNOME (along with Xfce and fvwm-crystal) I don't really feel like GNOME is lacking in customization options. While it obviously has less than KDE does, it doesn't feel like it, and everything I felt like customizing either had a pre-made theme or I could do it with the GUI. People always seem to criticize GNOME on its customization, but I don't feel like it is any less configurable than KDE, Xfce, fvwm and even Windows. What features did the old screen saver menu have that the new one does not? Because having just taken a look on it (Using Ubuntu 8.10) I can't find an option that isn't there that I would use.

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    2. Re:Just not interested by X0563511 · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Wrong.

      That was done because the old way is a security risk.

      http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316654

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  3. Re:Wait... by lordtoran · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And I'm anticipating similar functionality appearing in Kontact really soon... this sort of friendly competition makes Open Source progress so fast.

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  4. Re:awesome bar by DavoMan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And that pron that all your friends find when using your computer.

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  5. Re:Why brasero? by Too+Much+Noise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you had read T linked FA - fat chance on /., but still - or even if you knew a thing or two about Qt, it would have saved you from making a lame comment.

    First: Qt is not just a widget library. It's a full framework that goes well beyond putting things on screens.

    Second: What he did modify had nothing to do with widgets. K3b used a KProcess class that employed piping of I/O. In KDE4, that wraps QProcess, which is too high-level for the kind of data-passing throughput required by dvd burning, so he had the class re-written. Yes, the article title is lame (as is its rehashing by the GP post) - forking a class is nothing nearly like forking a framework - but its absurdity should have triggered curiosity instead of look-at-me-I'm-smart comments missing the point.

  6. Re:awesome bar by Coryoth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the gnome file manager also has an awesome bar like firefox now!

    Since this was modded Interesting/Informative instead of funny, let's be clear: the GNOME web browser (Epiphany) now has an "awesome bar" like firefox -- which isn't a huge change since the old version of the epiphany address bar searched bookmarks etc., mostly it just means more advanced history searches. The GNOME file manager (Nautilus) does not have an "awesome bar".

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